Contagion has been credited as offering an accurate examination of how a global pandemic might play out
As the UK endures another lockdown and watches the coronavirus death toll go past 100,000, one source of optimism has been the effectiveness of the national vaccine programme, the fastest such rollout in the world.
Now, as well as the effectiveness of the NHS and the work of former vaccine taskforce chief Kate Bingham, a surprising factor in that success has come to the fore: health secretary Matt Hancock’s obsession with a Matt Damon movie featuring a virus-ridden pig.
